A police officer sprays a fire extinguisher over cooking oil covering the road outside
Taipei Railway Station following an anti-nuclear protest in Taipei. Police
used water cannons to dislodge hundreds of overnight sit-in demonstrators demanding the
scrapping of a nearly completed nuclear power plant. The protesters fear that an earthquake could cause a nuclear calamity like the one at Fukushima in Japan.

With no parental supervision, Afghan Kuchi children lead their donkey across a river on the outskirts of Jalalabad. The
Kuchis are Pashtun nomads who live a pastoral lifestyle and have historically abstained from
politics.

Photo: Noorullah Shirzada, AFP/Getty Images

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Hungry eyes: A tiger licks his lips as he stares at a photographer at the zoo in Dortmund, Germany.

Photo: Martin Meissner, Associated Press

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Just a little bit closer ... Racers in the Bronx Zoo's "Run for the Wild" fundraiser pass the zoo’s new "Dinosaur Safari: Mysteries Revealed" exhibit in New York.

Photo: Julie Larsen Maher, Associated Press

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What a catch! Annie Lazo and Arthur Chappell prepare for their wedding photo shoot at the
Channel Wayside Fishing Dock on Gastineau Channel in Juneau, Alaska. Arthur proposed to
Annie while they were fishing together.

It was the best of times, it was the wurst of times: Ten-year-old Tyler Horsley watches
Chad Hall grind pork into sausage at an extension class in Cannonsburg, Ky.

Photo: Kevin Goldy, Associated Press

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The bass in the basement: Alana Collins fiddles with her phone amid a trio of bass before the Flint School of
Performing Arts' Showcase Concert in Flint, Mich.

Photo: Samuel Wilson, Associated Press

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Prepping the patient for surgery: Zookeeper Jen Rucker (left) and assistant curator Kevin Morris hang on tight after Lissa was injected with narcotics ahead of a cancer operation at Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, Fla. Doctor need to remove a tumor from the 3,500-pound white rhino's horn and inject chemotherapy drugs.